Cloud seeding studies still under evaluation

TORRINGTON – With farmers and ranchers relying on melted snowpack to fill local reservoirs, some residents may wonder about the $13.5 million cloud seeding research program that started in 2005.

One in particular, through the Wyoming Water Development Commission (WWDC) called the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Program (WWMPP), targeted the Medicine Bow, Sierra Madre and the Wind River mountain ranges to study weather conditions, the amount of annual snowpack and the amount of runoff accumulated from these particular areas using cloud seeding.